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TITLE

Problems of a `democratic text': Walter Besant's impossible story

AUTHOR(S)

Neetens, Wim

PUB. DATE

March 1990

SOURCE

Novel: A Forum on Fiction;Spring90, Vol. 23 Issue 3, p247

SOURCE TYPE

Review

DOC. TYPE

Book Review

ABSTRACT

Presents a critique of Walter Besant's novel `All Sorts and Conditions of Men' of 1882. Realization of Besant's Utopian scheme for a popular palace; Confidence in the workers of East London, England and in the power of culture to educate to obedience; Possibility of nonviolent mode of democratic social transformation; Class, politics and humanism; Culture; Literature and history.

ACCESSION #

9602223534

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